@article{ref1,
title="Reaching critical mass? Theory, politics, and the culture of debate in children's geographies",
journal="Area",
year="2008",
author="Vanderbeck, Robert M.",
volume="40",
number="3",
pages="393-400",
abstract="A small but growing number of voices have begun to raise questions about the current direction of children's geographies as a subfield and its status within the wider discipline. This article intervenes in these emerging discussions to examine the status of debate itself within children's geographies. I argue that children's geographies over the past decade has operated primarily in a consensus-based mode, with a number of potential tensions and differences between practitioners masked as a result. I develop the example of notions of children's competent social agency, a core theoretical assumption that is rarely interrogated in much depth. In closing, I pose questions regarding several contemporary political issues concerning children's agency about which geographers have had surprisingly little to say. I suggest that explicitly addressing some of these vexing issues would contribute to a richer state of debate within children's geographies.<p />",
language="",
issn="0004-0894",
doi="10.1111/j.1475-4762.2008.00812.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.2008.00812.x"
}